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Manager Antonio Conte
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As I said before...... If he stays..... The next training session is going to be quality.
His attitude has been; I provided a miracle last season so I have done my bit.
Levy used Conte to get out of the Nuno shit he caused for himself and Conte has used Levy & Spurs until there was no new satisfactory contract offer.
The supporters, Son and Harry Kane are the only victims of this bullshit.
Everyone else is just along for the money or the ride.
Dunno the finer details but it was noted in a game of theirs recently that it was the first time that they had fielded a starting XI without a Wenger era player
Tottenham’s squad believe Antonio Conte is ‘going or gone’ after outburst
David Hytner
Tottenham’s players believe that Antonio Conte is “going or gone”, according to a dressing-room source, with their only question about the manager’s future concerning the timing of his departure.
Conte is widely expected to leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season, although it is understood that some of the players would welcome him going immediately. There are serious doubts over whether enough of them are still behind him.
The Italian made a typically dramatic move on Saturday after the late capitulation at Southampton, when the team surrendered a 3-1 lead to draw 3-3, placing a dent in their top‑four hopes – the target for the remainder of the season. He attacked the players in his post-match press conference, labelling them “selfish”, accusing them of lacking “fire in the eyes” and blaming them for the club’s ongoing trophy drought.
Conte had said previously that his players struggled to cope under pressure and he doubled down on the criticism – and many others – during a blistering rant, which could be interpreted as a last roll of the dice to gee them up for their final 10 games of the season. Despite it all, Spurs continue to sit fourth. Newcastle are two points back in fifth and with two matches in hand.
On the Friday before last, in the wake of the Champions League last-16 elimination against Milan, Conte had gone for the fans, saying their lack of patience with regard to trophies had affected the players and created the wrong atmosphere. The comments were extraordinary, although they were certainly matched by those after the Southampton game.
It has been noticeable that Conte has avoided criticising the chairman, Daniel Levy, who himself remains under heavy fire from the support; they point to the club having won only the 2008 Carling Cup on his 22-year watch. It has added up to a messy and volatile situation as the international break begins. The team are next in action at Everton on 3 April.
The club have been linked with a host of new managers, including Mauricio Pochettino and Thomas Tuchel – both of whom are out of work but with a lot of variables in play. If Levy wants to make a change now, at the business end of the season, he could find that other targets who are in work are out of reach.
And in 18 months time Notabadsquad will once again be screaming for the "new guy" to be sacked and reminding us it wasn't Levy's fault we had only 2 shots on target and Dier and Tangnga had brain farts at the back
Who picks both players?
Tottenham’s squad believe Antonio Conte is ‘going or gone’ after outburst
David Hytner
Tottenham’s players believe that Antonio Conte is “going or gone”, according to a dressing-room source, with their only question about the manager’s future concerning the timing of his departure.
Conte is widely expected to leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season, although it is understood that some of the players would welcome him going immediately. There are serious doubts over whether enough of them are still behind him.
The Italian made a typically dramatic move on Saturday after the late capitulation at Southampton, when the team surrendered a 3-1 lead to draw 3-3, placing a dent in their top‑four hopes – the target for the remainder of the season. He attacked the players in his post-match press conference, labelling them “selfish”, accusing them of lacking “fire in the eyes” and blaming them for the club’s ongoing trophy drought.
Conte had said previously that his players struggled to cope under pressure and he doubled down on the criticism – and many others – during a blistering rant, which could be interpreted as a last roll of the dice to gee them up for their final 10 games of the season. Despite it all, Spurs continue to sit fourth. Newcastle are two points back in fifth and with two matches in hand.
On the Friday before last, in the wake of the Champions League last-16 elimination against Milan, Conte had gone for the fans, saying their lack of patience with regard to trophies had affected the players and created the wrong atmosphere. The comments were extraordinary, although they were certainly matched by those after the Southampton game.
It has been noticeable that Conte has avoided criticising the chairman, Daniel Levy, who himself remains under heavy fire from the support; they point to the club having won only the 2008 Carling Cup on his 22-year watch. It has added up to a messy and volatile situation as the international break begins. The team are next in action at Everton on 3 April.
The club have been linked with a host of new managers, including Mauricio Pochettino and Thomas Tuchel – both of whom are out of work but with a lot of variables in play. If Levy wants to make a change now, at the business end of the season, he could find that other targets who are in work are out of reach.
No point prolonging this shite. Just get rid of him.
Post of the weekend! Congrats
Weekend ain’t over yetPost of the weekend! Congrats
If that’s the case then he’ll be gone this week. Stories like this is how it usually starts.
Can't wait until we move all his smilies to 'old Spurs'
Those players who want him out now are probably those not playing. Just saying.
Did you follow up on Stronghold Climbing Centre?
The owner of the football club shouldn’t be having his fucking breakfast in the canteen with the rest of the club. The owners should be a figure of fear, not someone’s mate sitting at the next table who you can ask to pass the fucking HP Sauce.
No wonder the club isn’t taken seriously. I bet the players don’t take levy seriously at all!
He is not our biggest issue. He is not the right fit for us, that much is true, but so much is deeply wrong with our club. I've never seen it in my life where so many people just simply don't care about it anymore. My old man was going from knee high, watched us win the FA cup twice, and he just doesn't give a shit anymore. I don't think Poch coming back is gonna make the difference people think it will. I love him and if we have to have anyone next why not have him, but I still have PTSD over how horrendously badly he was backed whilst getting us playing ruthlessly well and more than proving himself as being a fucking fantastic manager. Even when he had money to spend, our scouting was fucking worthless. The summer of the season we came 2nd to Chelsea we spunked our money on Sissoko, Janssen and N'koudou, granted we also got Wanyama who was great in his first season with us (but also did fall apart from injuries, we only got 1 decent season out of him). Does anyone really believe any of those were players that Poch would have wanted, except for maybe Sissoko, but I don't reckon he did want him, I think we scrambled to sign him on deadline day because of a perceived lack of investment relative to our success the previous season, especially considering Leicester had won the title and many of our fans were quite rightly thinking, if they can do it, with the right investment we certainly could also.
Does anyone really think it's gonna change next season under a different manager? Paratici will probably go along with Conte due to this football ban that's part of the Juve thing, Levy will probably sign some incompetent fuckwit to put in charge of scouting and we'll get another Summer of signing players who aren't good enough and sit around on good wages doing fuck all for us, that no one then wants because they're not going to pay a fraction of what we did. There doesn't feel like there's any point being concerned with who is our current manager or who may replace him, while ENIC and Levy are around we will achieve fuck all.
Does anyone really think it's gonna change next season under a different manager? Paratici will probably go along with Conte due to this football ban that's part of the Juve thing, Levy will probably sign some incompetent fuckwit to put in charge of scouting and we'll get another Summer of signing players who aren't good enough and sit around on good wages doing fuck all for us, that no one then wants because they're not going to pay a fraction of what we did. There doesn't feel like there's any point being concerned with who is our current manager or who may replace him, while ENIC and Levy are around we will achieve fuck all.